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Election sexism watch (episode 4)
It looks like it’s not just the Mail and the rest of the tabloids that are having a problem with how to refer to Miriam González Durántez. Here’s what the Times has to say about her for example: “She...
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Forsaken?
Did anyone else see Nadine Dorries’s parliamentary adjournment debate last night on the information that’s provided to women seeking abortions, or as she’s disingenuously taken to calling it, on a...
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But then I found Jesus. The end
Remember Forsaken, the Taunton “charity” Nadine Dorries name-checked during the parliamentary adjournment debate on a “woman’s right” to be brainwashed by religious anti-abortion types when they...
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Guest Post: How to play institutional conservative sexism for beginners
This is a guest post by Ray Filar. You can find more of Ray’s work at Political Correctness Gone Mad. In a slightly homophobic game for straights known as ‘gay chicken’, two straight people of the same...
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Up the junction
Just in case you missed it, here’s a link to the text of Nadine Dorries’ speech in the House of Commons yesterday when she presented her ten-minute rule bill to Parliament – Sex Education (Required...
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Abortion rights under siege
In her Guardian article last week – Feminists shouldn’t try to stifle debate about abortion – Deborah Orr wrote: “I’m struggling to understand quite why it is so terrible that the anti-abortion...
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16 days and counting
It’s International Human Rights Day today, which means it’s officially the final day of the 16 days of activism against gender violence campaign. But 16 days isn’t enough is it? Not when you consider...
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“I asked God: she’s pro choice”
That was my favourite placard slogan from Friday evening’s protest in Bedford Square against the bigots and harassers of 40 Days for Life. Here are some pictures I took to mark the occasion. See if you...
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Lies, distortions, or fiction?
After already admitting that 70% of what she writes is fiction, it looks as though Nadine Dorries has even managed to confuse herself now about where she stands on abortion. For instance, here’s an...
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Is another attack on abortion rights in the offing?
I was watching the Parliament channel yesterday afternoon when I noticed the following little gem from Conservative MP Anne Main. Main was responding to the Labour MP Angela Rayner’s maiden speech in...
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